A FORMER Rockley man who was killed while on active service in the Vietnam War will be one of three people to have roads named in their honour in a new Kelso subdivision.
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David John Brennan was a corporal serving in the 9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment when he became the first Bathurst district soldier killed in action during a mortar attack at Fire Base Thrush in Vietnam on June 6, 1969.
He was aged just 22 at the time of the tragedy.
To honour his sacrifice, developers Hynash Group have proposed the name Brennan Drive for one of three new streets to be built as part of a 176-lot residential subdivision off the eastern end of Graham Drive and Mendel Drive in Kelso.
Councillors last week approved the name Brennan Drive – along with Cain Drive and Dovey Drive – and authorised environmental, planning and building services director Neil Southorn to proceed with the final gazettal process.
“The proposed names comply with Bathurst Regional Council's Guidelines for the Naming of Roads,” Mr Southorn wrote in a report to councillors.
The other new road names will also honour prominent Bathurstians.
Cain Drive will be named in memory of Peter Francis Cain, a former prominent and highly respected Bathurst solicitor.
Mr Southorn’s report notes Mr Cain was born in Orange in 1938 and died in Bathurst in 2008.
He won a bursary to attend St Stanislaus’ College from 1951-1955 and studied in the seminary for 12 months before starting as an assistant clerk in the Court of Petty Sessions in Bathurst Court House and around the state.
“In 1962 he married Veronica Livermore and they had four children,” the report states.
“Commenced as a solicitor in 1971 with John King in Bathurst. Was a founding partner at J H King & Cain in 1973 and stayed with King Cain until his death on May 9, 2008.”
Dovey Drive will be named in honour of Bathurst pioneer Thomas Robert Dovey who was born in 1833 and died in 1916.
Bathurst historian Alan McRae wrote in 2012 that Mr Dovey was a “cabin boy, overseer, general and produce store owner, teamster, partner in Fish’s Foundry, landowner”.
Thomas Dovey married Anne Jane Hawkins on March 20, 1861 and they had 12 children.
“The name Dovey is noted by the Bathurst History Group with 28 listings,” Mr Southorn states in his report.
Other roads to be built in the new subdivision, which is an extension of the existing Marsden Heights estate, will be named at a later date.